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Show of every character in every juibllc land state. I UTAH MAN TO BE NEXT PRESIDENT LOS ANGELES, Cat.. Sept. 3. The American ruining congiesa wound up the business of Its 1910 convention to-da to-da with the election of officers and the adoption of several resolutions, principal among which was one call- Ing upon congress to instruct the de- j partment of justice to investigate all grants Involving oil or other mineral lauds end take action to revert title to these In the public. John Dern Elected President. Arizona was' chosen for the 1011 convention. Either Douglas or Phoe nix will the place of meting, the selection se-lection being left to the board of directors di-rectors of the cone ress. John Dern of Salt Lake was elected president and James Callbieath of Denver reelected re-elected secrtary. The following vice presidents were chosen- Samuel A. Taylor of Pittsburg: D. W. Brunton of Denver and E. A. Montgomery of Los Angeles. Land Grants J.nvaUd. The resolution In reference to Iho Investigation of land grants was a substitute for that introduced by Thos. E. Gibbon or IX'S Angeles, which al leged definitely that the land grants to the Southern Pacific railroad Hi California were invalid by reason of the discovery of oil and calling upon the govornment to take steps to recover re-cover a Iryrge area In the mld-ate pec-tiou. pec-tiou. The substitute made the scope of tho resolution general so as to Include In-clude grants covering mlueral lands |